Jacopo Scassellati

Jacopo Scassellati was born in 1989 in Sassari, Sardinia, where he lives and works today. Raised between Sardinia and Umbria in a family of artists, he grew up inside his grandfather’s ceramic workshop, absorbing from an early age the discipline of clay, pigment, and form.

A painter and sculptor, Scassellati’s work meditates on memory, light, and transcendence. Rooted in the human figure yet suspended in a realm of timeless symbols, his art moves between the sacred and the sensual, the ancient and the contemporary.

Working between painting and glazed terracotta sculpture, he revives ancient materials and archetypal imagery to explore the fragile balance between matter and spirit. His canvases — often rendered in restrained tones of black, white, and ochre — evoke the chiaroscuro tradition of Italian painting, filtered through a metaphysical sensibility. Figures emerge from darkness like fragments of collective memory: mythic, yet unmistakably human.

His sculptural practice, forged in the family’s traditional ceramic atelier, translates this same dialogue into three-dimensional form. Through clay, fire, and glaze, he gives tangible presence to psychological and spiritual narratives drawn from classical mythology, sacred history, and cultural memory.

Scassellati trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Sassari and has completed numerous important commissions for churches in Italy, including major altarpieces and monumental sculptural works. His first solo exhibition in 2008 drew the attention of prominent Italian critic Vittorio Sgarbi, who recognized in him a rare artistic rhythm.

Today, his paintings and sculptures are held in private and public collections across Europe, the United States, and beyond.